I am SO happy, and feel so great!!!!!! Apparently, my madcap idea of eating right and going to the gym every day seems to be working!

Here are some things I have learned this month, if you would like to try my New Improved Miricle FIT Plan:

Eat breakfast. Not easy, but do it.

Small meals. Lot's of 'em.

Butter is not your friend, unless you have far more control than I do.

If you drink it, it mostly should be water.

If it's a vegatable or fruit, eat as much as you want. If it's a grain, it should be whole. If it's fats, cheese or meat, size matters.

If you stock your cupboards and freezer with Healthy Stuff that you can make EASILY when you crawl home, you will eat it, because anything else is simply too much work to contemplate.

If you are so tired you cannot move at the end of the day, you will not eat your house down when you get home. And you will SLEEP. All night. Instantly.

It is better to be the fattest person in ZUMBA class than the fat chick in the Donut aisle.

Class is only an hour. All you have to do is SHOW UP. Someone else decides all the rest. It's only an hour.

You will start to feel Very Powerful after about 2 weeks. Before that, you will feel Very Sore. Ok, after that, you still feel Very Sore, but you now love that feeling.

You will have Amazing Super Power Energy. I don't know why this is, I just feel it.

Go at your own pace, what works for someone else, might not work for you. I have a body that feels really good when it's working out, I grew up an athlete. 1-2 hours a day, 6 days a week feels NORMAL. I do ZUMBA, Yoga, Evil Step Class, Weights and Ride Horses. I try for 2 a day. But that's me. I love this stuff.

The secret is out! This eat less, eat well, and move more gimmick is the discovery of the century!

My weigh-in is today too. I feel confident about it. I've been eating better. Moving more still an issue though. I've never been an active person. Still inspired as all get out by your example, but in baby steps.

I don't want to jinx anything, but I would really love some positive energy in the direction of my husband getting a job offer tomorrow. It would mean a move for us, hopefully into a bigger house, which we desperately need. But more importantly it will mean a salary that will keep us eating and being able to DO things for our kids.

We used to do things for them all the time, and he has been hit with no pay raises, not even cost of living pay raises for 4 years now, AND he has been furloughed for three years, which means no raises AND a pay cut. To say the least life has become...hard. We need this so badly, and if you wonderful Fiends could send positive energy that way, I would greatly appreciate it.

That is so awesome lorraine!!! Ben starts school next week which means that my tuesdays and thursdays are completely open since I don't drive carpool those days. I am bound and determined to work out and do yoga on both of those days. My body hurts...in a bad way...i keep going to rolfing and sometimes massage but it will never be fixed if i'm not *proactive* instead of *reactive*. Thanks for the inspiration!

am working on a brochure for our local hospital Wellness Center and they now offer Zumba and something called Les Mills Body Press & Body Flow. You've got me intrigued enough to enquire about membership dues! Just don't feel my arthritic ankle would be up to Zumba...think i'll try the Body Fit & Flow classes they sound low impact.

monster puppet, monster costumes. i really liked the various harps and pianos, especially that one pretty hot piano. i was very impressed with the boy behind me, there with his aunt. before the show started i asked him, if it was okay if he told me, how old he was. he very proudly told me he was 11 and absolutely mad about everything Gaga. he sang every song that he knew word-for-word at the top of his lungs. i just wanted to pinch his cheeks.

i was most impressed with the band, the singing, the dancing. the Show and the Costumes were entertaining on top of that. but nodding in agreement, Fablor, on your other notes, and point to Jess. ;) yeah, she loses me with the "little monster" thing, when i and i'd guess that at least half the audience are her age or (a good bit) older, and (more or less) fine with ourselves. and if i am a fan of anything, i am a big fan of truth, esp. truth with tact when one can manage it. and the idea of the monster ball i liked, but agree it did seem rough, as though they forgot about it periodically, so i forgot about it until they mentioned it again.

urgh. my monsters are at school now. all day, both of them! it's kinda freakin' me out, only an hour and a half in. :P

The forecasts I see have you getting the edges (bad enough with a storm this size), Cape Cod getting hammered, but the main body staying offshore until landfall in Canada. By which time it will have lost a lot of oomph. I hope.

Wet, windy, but not awful, I think.

Do you like hurricanes or no? I always enjoyed them, except for the tree on top of the house during Fran in 1996.

Now I live far enough inland that sometimes we get rain, but no storm.

Actually, Ms. Fabulous, I was referring to Cecily and family moving to Virginia.

My Dad was a storm trooper, an insurance claims adjuster that worked catastrophic, and lesser, storms. He spent a lot of time in the Carolinas working storms, starting with Hugo, and on up to Isabel. Damage from Isabel was the last storm he worked, and he didn't finish that.